🚀 go-pugleaf

> MW Ron <mwron@metrowerks.com> wrote in message
> news:<mwron-2E0BF6.17313214112002@enews.newsguy.com>...
>> In article <drehring-EB3B5F.13160214112002@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net>,
>>  David Rehring <drehring@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, for me, this appears to be one of the worst updates from MW in a
>>> long time.
>> 
>> This defintitely is one of the best ever  it is pure gold

[...]

> P.P.S I like your bullishness :)

It is quite remarkable, is it not?  The bullishness, that is...  I'm
reserving judgement on pure gold.

So far the update has worked flawlessly for me.  Ran the IDE through a
brutal window closing session with no problems and reading your post below,
it really sounds like some old version of the IDE could have been the
offender.

OS X does some unexpected stuff when choosing editors for an open document
event...  It may be well defined at the code level but I think it's safe to
say there are issues when you put the mechanism live on a user's dirty
desktop.  A tough problem to be fair, keeping that db mapping coherent.

It sucks to see MW being vilified there in your post right after this update
because they sure have taken a beating over the window close crash (and
rightly so).  I hope your circumstances are isolated.  I have been using 8.3
for the past 8 hours and it hasn't crashed once.  Things are looking great.
If it keeps going like this, tomorrow I may even screw up the balls to turn
on code completion.  I also received a special bug fix from MW to fix a
linker issue.  I found it incredible that they took time to help me out
while pounding out something as critical to them as 8.3 - I'm not exactly
the head of Microsoft's Mac BU or anything, I'm just a frickin guy and they
gave me a special build of the linkers to address an annoying issue that was
complicating my build process.

My point is that Metrowerks cares about the customers that post on this
newsgroup and that is a very good thing.  I have to pay Apple Computer $195
before they will even talk to me about an issue.  (yeah there are a few ways
around that I know).  Whether or not 8.3 is pure gold (so far so good
though), the support _is_ pure gold and that matters a lot.

+jon

On 11/15/02 2:40 AM, in article
ad65e6c9.0211150240.1f8b63dd@posting.google.com, "EJ" <ec109695@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> MW Ron <mwron@metrowerks.com> wrote in message
> news:<mwron-2E0BF6.17313214112002@enews.newsguy.com>...
>> In article <drehring-EB3B5F.13160214112002@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net>,
>>  David Rehring <drehring@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, for me, this appears to be one of the worst updates from MW in a
>>> long time.
>> 
>> This defintitely is one of the best ever  it is pure gold I don't knwo
>> why you are having problems.  But there is always ways to foil us so
>> please do try this again and do a clean install to be sure.
>> 
>>> Update 8.2 to 8.3->goes fine
>>> use installer option to open IDE and update MSL Libs->ok
>>> rebuild all libraries->fine
>>> 
>>> Now, open release notes for 8.3 in Finder
>>> ->launches new copy of IDE [the same file]
>>> Most likely, this is just due to how the installer launched the IDE, not
>>> really a problem
>> 
>> You should not have gotten two version of the IDE open unless you happen
>> to have two versions of the IDE and even then ...
> 
> Well I too somehow got two copies of the IDE open. I think it happened
> when I clicked on CodeWarrior from my dock. I'm not what versions the
> two copies were. Perhaps the second copy was the old IDE that the
> installer put into the trash or perhaps the installer opened the IDE
> in a funky way and confused the Finder. I quickly closed them both,
> updated my dock shortcut, and haven't had any more problems.
> 
> One more thing. What should have opened after the install? I thought
> the build libraries project was supposed to open. For me, only the IDE
> launched. After I manually opened the libraries project, everything
> went very smoothly.
> 
> -EJ
> 
> P.S. To contact me, please e-mail me at ejc3_at_kagi.com (change the
> _at_ to an @).
> P.P.S I like your bullishness :)